Waiting for resultpage...

Hello,

I am working with WWW::Mechanize in order to contact a page that
processes a request for me. My problem is that the final result page
needs 2-3 minutes on that server to be calculated. Inbetween another not
important page is shown that indicates that the server is working on my
request.
My problem is how to ignore that intermediate page but get that last
important resultpage.

Thats the code:

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($url3);
my $upload = File::Spec->catfile($dir, "Temp");
if($mech->success())
{
$mech->form_number(1);
$mech->set_fields(email => "", -uploaded_file => $upload,
-case => "upper", -seqnos => "off", -outorder => "input",);
$mech->tick(-in => "Mlalign_id_pair");
$mech->tick(-in => "Mfast_pair");
$mech->tick(-in => "Mclustalw_aln");
$mech->tick(-output => "fasta_aln");
$mech->tick(-output => "score_html");
$mech->submit();
if($mech->success())
{
open(FILE, ">", "TCoffee_$multizFile.html");
print FILE $mech->content();
close FILE;
}
}

$mech-success and then $mech->content() prints just that intermediate
page that I want to ignore.

Thank you for help.

Sebastian

Re: Waiting for resultpage...

ChaosMK2 wrote:
> Inbetween another not important page is shown
> that indicates that the server is working on
> my request. My problem is how to ignore that
> intermediate page but get that last important
> resultpage.


You'll need to look at how the intermediate page works. Chances are that
it either uses javascript or a meta tag to do the redirect/refresh every
so often and once the result is ready that URL gives real results instead
of another intermediate page.

You'll want to parse out that redirect/refresh target (or, assuming the
URL is static, just get it off the mech object) and keep trying that URL
until the content no longer resembles the intermediate page (presumably
with a polite sleep() between requests). Once the content no longer looks
like the intermediate page, it should hopefully be your final results.

-matt

Re: Waiting for resultpage...

matthew wickline wrote:

>ChaosMK2 wrote:
>
>
>>Inbetween another not important page is shown
>>that indicates that the server is working on
>>my request. My problem is how to ignore that
>>intermediate page but get that last important
>>resultpage.
>>
>>
>
>
>You'll need to look at how the intermediate page works. Chances are that
>it either uses javascript or a meta tag to do the redirect/refresh every
>so often and once the result is ready that URL gives real results instead
>of another intermediate page.
>
>You'll want to parse out that redirect/refresh target (or, assuming the
>URL is static, just get it off the mech object) and keep trying that URL
>until the content no longer resembles the intermediate page (presumably
>with a polite sleep() between requests). Once the content no longer looks
>like the intermediate page, it should hopefully be your final results.
>
>-matt
>
>
>
>
Thank you very much for your answer Matt but the problem persists. Here
come the three intermediate pages:

Page1:


PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
lang="en-US">
Processing, please wait...

Page2:


PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
lang="en-US">
Processing, please wait....

src=/Tcoffee/Images/l5.gif>